After a catastrophe, how can we heal a community?

“This is a revolution. A positive revolution.”
 —Florence Duperval Guillaume, Former Haitian Minister of Health 

Please watch our documentary trailer and learn more.

We need memorials that embrace truth.

The Equal Justice Initiative and MASS Design Group want to create a memorial space that embraces truth and encourages reflection and change.

“I believe we need to talk about the shame of slavery. We need to talk about the shadows that still haunt us.”
 —Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative 

Read more about our project.

Can shelter reduce maternal mortality?

Taking design cues from rural towns, the Maternity Waiting Village in Kasungu, Malawi gives mothers who travel to give birth at a health clinic a comfortable place to stay in the final weeks of their pregnancy.

Read more about the project's design and construction.

Africa needs local human-centered designers.

In September, we will launch our first class of African Design Centre fellows in Kigali, Rwanda. The hands-on program will prepare them to take on the primary infrastructure challenges of a growing and urbanizing continent.

Learn about the African Design Centre.

Can design policy scale health outcomes?

After assessing the state of the country’s health facilities, MASS’s research team led the development of Liberia's ten-year health infrastructure policy. This culminated in the development of contextually-optimized health infrastructure standards to guide future construction countrywide.

Find out more about our policy work in Liberia.